Will Forte, Director Dave Green Celebrate 'Coyote Vs. Acme' Rescue

I love when I can manifest things and then get to report on them

That’s not all folks! Back on March 31, Ketchup Entertainment, the domestic rescuers of The Day The Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie, confirmed they had completed purchasing worldwide rights to Coyote vs. Acme, a live-action and animated hybrid Looney Tunes film from Warner Bros. for around $50 million and setting a 2026 theatrical release, saving it from a permanent shelving as a tax write off. Several cast and crew, including Wile E. Coyote voice Eric Bauza, Foghorn Leghorn voice Joe Cobden, P.J. Byrne, BenDavid Grabinski, Steven Ray Byrd, editor Carsten Kurpanek, composer Steven Price, and story-credited producer James Gunn, had more immediate celebration. But not everyone is as on social media as they are. So it took slightly longer to get statement from director Dave Green and star Will Forte.

To Green’s credit, he tweeted his statement on April 1, the day after, but it was still after I published the aftermath article. He tweeted gratefully “Still in shock. To every single coyote who did not give up chasing: thank you. Your belief and persistence kept us alive. No words can articulate the gratitude we have to Ketchup for helping us catch this bird.”

'Coyote Vs. Acme' Star Will Forte Releases Statement To Cast And Crew Following Apparent Write-Off

Forte however had a public appearance on Thursday, April 24, the Los Angeles red carpet premiere of the Netflix miniseries The Four Seasons, where he stars alongside co-creator Tina Fey, Steve Carell, and Colman Domingo, an adaptation of the 1981 film written and directed by Alan Alda. He told The Hollywood Reporter “I never thought it would happen so it just came out of nowhere and I’m so thrilled,” he said. “Thank you Ketchup Entertainment, I’m so excited for people to see this movie. I’m gonna promote the crap out of it, just tell me what you want me to do and I’ll go, I’ll do whatever — go to the top of Mount Everest, I’m there.” I’d like to believe the publication approached him at my own prodding because I quoted their video of him there begging the rescue come up in some fashion.

Based on the New Yorker humor article “Coyote v. Acme” by Ian Frazier (and by formality the Looney Tunes characters), Coyote vs. Acme follows Wile E. Coyote, who, after Acme products fail him one too many times in his dogged pursuit of the Road Runner, decides to hire a billboard lawyer, Kevin Avery, to sue the Acme Corporation. The case pits them against the latter’s intimidating former boss, Buddy Crane, but a growing friendship between man and cartoon stokes their determination to win. The film also stars Lana Condor, Tone Bell, and Martha Kelly, and was written by Samy Burch, who had done the story with Gunn and Jeremy Slater. And if you were unsure why I’m going to claim I manifested it, well, here’s a screenshot.

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Sources: Dave Green, The Hollywood Reporter